"Let us record the atoms as they..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”

“What a lark! What a plunge!”

“It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.”

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”

“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”

“Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?”

“The silence of the envious is too noisy.”

“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.”

“Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.”